Adrian Gutzelnig

16 Hz, 2017

29

Historic Hall // Historische Halle

ENGLISH

Performance / Sound Installation
Organ pipes

The experience of sound changes at the lower extremities of human hearing. The body increasingly senses sound more than the ear as a frequency deepens. The project 16 Hz explores the area of blending and unusual sonic experience between low bass and infrasound.

During the performance, a classical pipe organ is repurposed to create a sea of sound waves that fill the historic hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof. The audience is welcome to experience this aural field while moving through the space. The pipes, scaled to ten meters in length to enable the desired spectrum, stimulate varying harmonic and acoustic phenomena in an unbroken compositional development.

Infrasound in the volume range employed during the performance is harmless to the health. Nevertheless in case you feel uncomfortable please position yourself further away from the pipes.